5-15, SWINLEY ROAD

Nos. 5-15 Swinley Road is a terraced row of six townhouses, now converted into flats, likely built in 1876 by G Heaton of Wigan for the Wigan Land and Building Company. The buildings are constructed of red brick in English garden wall bond, with matching red terracotta dressings and some sandstone that has been painted. The sides and rear are made of common brick, and the roofs are slate. The houses have a double-depth plan, each being single-fronted and arranged in three pairs with adjoining back extensions. The architectural style is eclectic, combining Gothic and Arts-and-Crafts features.

The exterior is two and a half storeys high over cellars, with each house featuring two first-floor windows. There is a chamfered stone plinth, stone sills for the windows, and stone lintels above the doorways and windows on the ground and first floors. Each house has a symmetrical design with a prominent bay that includes a canted bay window at the ground floor and a two-light sashed window at the first floor, which has a segmental-pointed extrados filled with saw-toothed coursing and is topped with a hood-mould. Above, there is a broad gabled half-dormer with a segmental-pointed window, flanked by coupled pilaster strips that rise to an oversailing gable featuring pargeting in the apex.

Between the bays, there are coupled square-headed doorways with moulded pilaster jambs and enriched capitals, leading to panelled half-glazed doors with rectangular overlights. Above each doorway is a one-light sashed window with a two-centred arched extrados, along with a segmental-pointed attic window under an oversailing gable. A terracotta band with rippled, moulded, and nailhead enrichment runs above the ground floor, encircling the bays as a frieze, while the first floor features an enriched impost band. The roofs have coupled chimney stacks on the front slope. The interior has not been inspected.